Drinking And Smoking Don't Boost HPV-Related Cancer Risk
U.S. Newswire, November, 2007
To: MEDICAL EDITORS
Contact: Wendy Lawton of Brown University, 401-863-1862 or 401- 837-6055, wendy_lawton@brown.edu
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Heavy smoking and drinking are known to cause head and neck cancer. Infection with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16), a common strain of the sexually-transmitted HPV virus, is another known risk factor for head and neck cancer, which affects about 500,000 people each year worldwide.
New Brown University research, however, shows that alcohol and tobacco use doesn't further increase the risk of contracting head and neck cancers for people infected with HPV16. This finding, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is the strongest evidence to date that these major cancers have...
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